John Curry is off to the DEL (same league as Steve Wagner) and signed a deal with the Hamburg Freezers according to this news on their website (all in German)
Playing “Fun with Babelfish Translate” like we love to do here at Chirps, here is the article translated from German to English:
16.06.2011 – Goal keepers John Curry for the coming DEL play time 2011/2012 under contract took Hamburg Freezers. The 27-Jährige changes from the AHL club Wilkes Barre/Scranton Penguins to the Elbe and the back number 36 will carry. At the end of the past season „Hap of “cross-beam Memorial Award for the lowest Gegentorschnitt of a goal keeper Duos in the American Hockey League (AHL) was lent to the American of the Harry.
„John Curry was one of our first class candidates, it stood for a long time above on our list. We are glad that it decided for Hamburg Freezers “, so director of sport Stéphane Richer. „John belonged to his crew over years to the franchise of the Pittsburgh Penguins, was master goal keeper in the AHL with Wilkes Barre and regularly many plays won. It is very mobile, fast-reacting and fights with spectacular parades around each disk. We order in the coming play time now over a strong and ambitious duo. Niklas is kept further at the side of John to mature and according to ice age. We are glad that the cadre enjoys already now so well completely actual priority now the obligation of a further defender. “
After on 27 February 1984 in Shorewood (Minnesota/USA) born Curry of 2003 – 2007 years for the University OF Boston in the NCAA between the posts and apart from the Meistertitel also the choice stood to the player of the yearly 2007 to celebrate was allowed, the goal keeper changed to the Pittsburgh Penguins. At their farm team, the 180 cm large and reached 84 kg heavy Americans matured the Wilkes Barre/Scranton Penguins equal in its premiere season to the master goal keeper and with its crew the final around the Calder Cup. Besides John Curry with the USA participated in Germany Cup and failed only in the final because of Switzerland.
In the following play time it gave its NHL debut, which penguin with 5:3 could to Cup winner Pittsburgh on 26 November 2008 for the coming Stanley win. Up to the end three further employments in that followed the season 2010/2011 national Hockey League, in addition the 27-Jährige stood in altogether 210 AHL portions for Wilkes Barre on the ice. After the play time run off Curry as well as its team colleague Brad Thiessen received the Harry „Hap of “cross-beam Memorial Award and won with the Eastern of all star the AHL all star Classic 2011. John Curry regards the Penguins record as most main round (to 103/2007 – 2011) and Playoff victories (18/2007 – 2011) altogether as well as during a main round (33/2008 2009).
„For me the step is to Europe a large challenge “, like that John Curry. „I developed in the last four years in the AHL very well and am now ready to be able to fill out such a important position in Hamburg. The Freezers arranged the feeling for me to want to really take me under contract – I would like to pay these intensive efforts back gladly with many employment and good achievements! “
Interesting that another NHL team didn’t take a pass on Curry for one more year. His time with Pittsburgh was up, he was not ever going to crack the triumvirate of Fleury-Johnson-Thiessen in net, but I am a bit stunned to see Curry just run off to Europe like that.
This all but solidifies the fact that Brad Thiessen will be signed by Pittsburgh before July 1. An AHL veteran goaltender will need to be signed by Wilkes-Barre as I do not see Patrick Killeen or Mattias Modig being relevant in Wilkes-Barre in the fall unless it is an emergency condition.
As with the news with Steve Wagner from last week, we here at Chrips from Center Ice wish John Curry well in his German endeavors.
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